Dark ambient is a genre of post-industrial music that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities towards ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many dark ambient artists, both conceptually and compositionally. Although mostly electronically generated, dark ambient also includes the sampling of hand-played instruments and semi-acoustic recording procedures, and is strongly related to ritual industrial music.
Spirit Dome (2004) is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Steve Roach and Vidna Obmana. It was recorded in a live studio session in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 24, 2002, beginning at around 1 AM. Although there are eight tracks on the CD they are not individually titled, making Spirit Dome a single 73 minute piece of music.
Bass Communion is a side project of Steven Wilson, best known for his lead role in the rock band Porcupine Tree. Records released under the name "Bass Communion" are in an ambient or electronic vein - lengthy drone-heavy compositions. They come about as experiments in texture made from processing the sound of real instruments and field recordings.
Hypnos is an independent record label, located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was started in 1996 by M. Griffin to release his own recordings, both solo and for his collaborative project Viridian Sun, and has since become an established ambient label.
Arcane Device is the sometimes recording name of musician David Lee Myers. Myers began working with electronic music in 1980, building his own synthesizers and audio modulation circuitry. With the discovery of Feedback Music and the release of his first LP in 1988 he established the name Arcane Device. He has collaborated with musicians such as Asmus Tietchens, Tod Dockstader, Marco Oppedisano, Tom Dimuzio, Ellen Band, Dirk Serries, and Kim Cascone.
Jeff Greinke is an American ambient music and jazz artist and composer currently based in Tucson, Arizona. He is known as one of the pioneers of dark ambient music, with his earlier solo albums often compared to works by Robert Rich, Brian Eno, and Vidna Obmana. Greinke's approach on his ambient works is to heavily layer, mutitrack, and texture soundscapes, effectively using the studio as an instrument.
Thom Brennan is an American electronic ambient musician, composer and synthesist. Active since the 1980s with his first album Mountains (1987), he belongs to the scene of Californian pioneers of electronic music. His style encloses the principal traits characterizing the evolution from Terry Riley's and Morton Subotnick's minimalism to the form of electronic new-age suite.
Asmus Tietchens, who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music.
Anthology 1984 - 2004 is a compilation of the first 20 years of music by Dirk Serries under his pseudonym Vidna Obmana.
Echo Passage is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Alio Die and Vidna Obmana. The album was originally released in 1999 on the Italian label Musica Maxima Magnetica and was reissued on Projekt Records in 2006.
Plague Recordings is an independent record label formerly operating from Belgium specialising in ambient, industrial and experimental electronic music.
Jeff Pearce is an Indiana-based ambient/new age musician. He has been called "one of the top two electronic guitarists of all time" by Allmusic, while reviewer John Diliberto wrote in Billboard magazine that Pearce is "one of the best" guitarists to follow the solo electric guitarist concept. Pearce started playing guitar at age 13 and discovered the music of Brian Eno and Harold Budd while in college.
The Spiritual Bonding is an album by Vidna Obmana, released in 1994 through Extreme Records.
Parallel Flaming is an album by Djen Ajakan Shean and Vidna Obmana, released in 1994 through Multimood.
Echoing Delight is an album by Vidna Obmana, released on October 5, 1993 through Extreme Records.
Cavern of Sirens (1997) is the second collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Vidna Obmana.
InnerZone (2002) is the fifth collaborative album by American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Belgian Vidna Obmana, containing a echoes of desert ambience, rhythmic ambience, space music, and electro-tribal ambience.
Low Volume Music (2012) is the sixth collaborative album by ambient musicians Steve Roach and Dirk Serries. It was their first album after a ten-year hiatus following the release of InnerZone in 2002.
